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Santa Rosa, CA. ~ It’s always so great to hear from people who have never heard of the Upbeat Times. Mostly, it happens when I am out talking with people and in- troducing myself, inviting them to contribute their ‘Upbeat Happen- ings’ to us. Immediately, they say that they are tired of the news on television, radio & papers. Many times, there are people listening in on conversations I am having and say, “I’ll take one of those!” I also let them know immediately, that’s why I created this paper. Another truth is...I love to get
people excited about the possi- bilities of doing great things with their lives by focusing on what is working for them in their lives. Recently, I met a nice young lady named Iris who is doing just that... helping others. I didn’t help her to do anything, I just thought I’d get the message out to all the people who read this paper. The story, written by Dr. Anne Cowden, is right on page two of this June is- sue called Voices. I also enjoy talking to people about food, health, philosophy and human kindness. There is a lot of it out there. I don’t have enough pages to put it all in, but I will be changing that soon. We’ll be con- sistently having 32 pages of great news a month. I’ve really tried not to over do pages because printing gets expensive. The help of new businesses advertising will allow this!
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I’m not really a traditional type of person, but when Fathers Day comes around, I really do a lot of refl ecting, not about the actually day, but about what it means to be a dad. The responsibilities, the love and all the guidance that goes into the daily understanding that I must be the example. I’d like to think I am a great ex-
ample. But as the teenage years have come to my children, I am forever both enjoying the mo- ments and just slightly confused about what to say or how to say it to them. But, generally, I guess I say the right things 95% of the time, but a teenage mind interprets what I say differently than my own. I’m so thrilled when I actu- ally have a genuine conversation with my youngest daughter, now 14. The oldest is fi nishing her 4th year of college. Poor little kid, dad likes to talk, and she doesn’t want to talk. It is rather hard for me to say nothing. I ask her, “Do you have conver- sations with your friends at high school?” She says, “Yes dad, of course I do!” I say, “What do you talk about?” She says, “Lot’s of stuff actually. Sometimes we just hang out!” When I was in high school, I
drove people crazy I’m sure, be- cause I always had something I thought was interesting and im- portant to talk about. But, I admit, sometimes I didn’t. I was continu- ously trying out new comedy ma- terial. A lot was pretty strange & off the wall. I mostly tried to make them laugh. I was pretty successful most of the time. The real victims of my humor we’re the customers who would come into the various restaurants I worked at as a waiter. I think the reason I made pretty good money is because I managed to catch people by surprise. Not only did I give the great service, they also got free entertainment. Of course, it backfi red on occa- sion, but not to often. In addition I always drew car- toons on the receipt with a big thank you in a caption balloon. One day, while working at a Good Earth Restaurant in Santa Rosa, the manager came up do me during
the lunch rush, and said to come see him after my shift. I fi nished all my side duties, as they called them, and clocked out. I came to the door, He say’s, “Come in, sit down” For some reason, I was slightly uncomfortable, thinking, ‘What’s up?’
He proceeds to reach over on his desk and grab a handful of order tickets, you know, the 4 inch by nine inch one’s, and say’s, “What this, and this and this?” He peers over his Ben Franklin style glasses waiting for me to reply...”They’re order tickets, Jacko” (that’s what everyone called him, since his name was Jack) He say’s, “No, what’s this?!”, and points to my cartoon illustrations on well over 15 tickets I had written. They were all big smiley faces, some with Sigmond, my cartoon at left. He looks at me a says, “I love
it! This is great Paul, people love you, keep it up!” My face dropped and I said, “Thanks Jacko, for a second there I thought I had done something wrong” I then said to him, “You keep it up to Jacko, you’re a great boss and I appreci- ate you too!” He says, “Well, that was your employee review! Have a great afternoon!” Here I am now, doing the
same thing, making every mo- ment count and realizing there’s always an opportunity to do something unusual, different and positive all the time, anytime. May this issue fi nd you well!
UPBEAT TIMES • June 2015 • 3 First Humor
There was an elderly man visit- ing a doctor for his check-up. As he was leaving he asked the doctor if he could recommend a specialist for his wife. “What’s wrong with her?” asked the doctor. The old man explained that her hearing was getting so bad that it was almost embarrassing. The doctor said he knew of several specialists that could help but he wanted the old man to do a little test when he got home to help the doctor determine the severity of her hearing loss. The doctor said “When you get home, make sure your wife’s back is turned to you and ask her a question. If she doesn’t respond walk closer and ask her again. Keep doing this until she answers and let me know the results”. That night, when the old man opened the door of his home he could see his wife in the kitchen preparing dinner. She was at the counter with her back to the door. “What’s for dinner?” the old man asked. His wife did not respond so he walks to the doorway of the kitchen and asked the question again. Still, he was greeted with silence. This time he walks up just behind her and asks once again “What’s for dinner?” His wife spins around a bit agitated and says “For the third time, Fried Chicken!!”
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